Facility Supervisor

For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development, and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Facility Supervisor to join our Insourcing Solutions team, located in Boston, MA within the Charles River Accelerator & Development Labs (CRADL) animal facilities. As the Facility Supervisor, you will provide direct supervision of the daily activities and training of staff conducting husbandry and support services. You will prioritize and complete ongoing tasks independently following established policies and guidelines, and liaise with clients to ensure satisfaction with staff performance.

Responsibilities

• Plan, create, assign, and monitor work schedules for staff daily husbandry and study support assignments; assign weekend, holiday, and on-call coverage.
• Supervise and develop animal care and support staff, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and employee development.
• Serve as a model to CRADL employees as it relates to CRL Core Values (CARE, LEAD, OWN, COLLABORATE).
• Provide mentorship, leadership, and motivation to all CRADL personnel.
• Monitor and analyze staff performance to ensure the highest level of animal care and support, timely reporting of health concerns, and meeting client needs.
• Communicate with clients, listen to feedback/concerns, and respond promptly and professionally, demonstrating strong organizational skills to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.
• Perform or obtain proficiency to provide husbandry or technical backup on dosing, injections, or collections as needed.
• Inspect animal housing systems to ensure proper setup and function; coordinate the movement of animals within the facility and assign housing locations for incoming animals.
• Conduct routine QA inspections of animal holding and support facilities to ensure established levels of animal health, facilities condition, sanitation levels, environmental parameters, and security are being met or exceeded.
• Investigate animal welfare concerns, propose and deliver appropriate mitigations to active concerns while preventing future recurrences.
• Generate work orders, maintain documentation on all maintenance, and ensure resolution.
• Place and receive orders, monitor acquisition, receipt, storage, and issue of supplies/animals; supervise the use of all space within the facility.
• Supervise record maintenance; generate and submit reports and report operations issues to management.
• Provide timely, concise, and effective communication regarding all facility utilities, infrastructure, process equipment, supply chain, and housing system issues to management.
• Participate in the development and implementation of CRADL organization and site-specific policies and SOPs.

Requirements

• High school diploma, General Education Degree (G.E.D.), or equivalent required.
• Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) in animal or life sciences field preferred.
• Minimum four years in a laboratory animal facility, of which 2 years is supervisory or lead technician experience.
• Laboratory Animal Technologist (LATG) certification from AALAS or Certified Supervisor (CS) certification from ICPM preferred.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $88,000–$95,000 USD annually. Salaries vary within the range based on factors including experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

Benefits

We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position, these may include:

• Bonus/incentives based on performance
• 401K
• Paid time off
• Stock purchase program
• Health and wellness coverage
• Employee and family wellbeing support programs
• Work-life balance flexibility

About Insourcing Solutions

Charles River Insourcing Solutions℠ can streamline research by delivering operational and cost efficiencies through the strategic insourcing of GMP, GLP, and non-GLP research services from discovery through safety assessment. Insourcing Solutions℠ provides you with the ability to maintain control of your facility and expertise while leveraging available space.

About Charles River

Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies, hospitals, and academic institutions around the world. At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science, and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.